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Blacks Denied Right to Fight for Country

  • Apr 15, 1861
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President Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion. Lincoln administration rejected Black volunteers. For almost two years straight Black Americans fought for the right, as one humorist put it, "to be kilt".

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